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Family background, education, and earnings : the limited value of "test-score transmission"
Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Justman, Moshe - 2024
secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a … strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … students in Hebrew-language schools from eighth grade to age 29, we provide evidence that despite Israeli schools being …
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The impact of parental income and education on the health of their children
Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003293973
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Growing up together: sibling correlation, parental influence, and intergenerational educational mobility in developing countries
Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Han, … - 2022 - This version: July 6, 2022, preliminary draft
-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the …
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Do gender, child, and parent characteristics contribute to intergenerational subjective well-being mobility? : evidence from Russia during 1994-2019
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022
traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility-as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254144
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Are grandparents a good substitute for parents as the primary caregiver? : the impact of grandparents on children's academic performance
Wang, Sophie Xuefei; Bansak, Cynthia - 2022
This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …
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Does quality time produce quality children? : evidence on the intergenerational transmission of human capital using parental deaths
Gould, Eric D.; Simhon, Avi - 2011
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Age effects in education : a double disadvantage for second-generation immigrant children
Abatemarco, Antonio; Cavallo, Mariagrazia; Marino, … - 2021
that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to … benefits to second-generation immigrant children. Besides, we point out the possibility of exploiting the larger impact of the … relative age on second-generation children in order to support their performance and reduce the large penalization associated …
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The academic and labor market returns of university professors
Braga, Michela; Paccagnella, Marco; Pellizzari, Michele - 2014
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Are conditional cash transfers fulfilling their promise? : schooling, learning, and earnings after 10 years
Barham, Tania Catherine Jane; Macours, Karen; Maluccio, … - 2017
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
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